8085 Microprocessor Architecture

DR E M MOHAMMED

Intel 8085 CPU Block Diagram

The 8085 Block Diagram

Registers hold temporary data.

Instruction register (IR) holds the currently executing instruction. Instruction Decoder (ID)- decodes the instruction. Once decoded, the instruction controls the remainder of the MPU, memory and IO through the timing and control block.

The 8085 Block Diagram

Temporary register- holds information from the memory or register array. An input of the ALU. Increment/Decrement address latch It adds or subtracts one from any of other registers in register array.

Why are the PC and SP registers are 16-bit ?

Signals and I/O Pins

Intel 8085 Pin Configuration

Clock Pins

8085 MPU has 3 pins that control or present the clock signal. X1 and X2 pins determine the clock frequency. CLK OUT is a TTL square-wave output clock.

8085A X1
6 MHz

CLK OUT

X2

The CLOCK OUT is one-half the crystal frequency.

8085 Pinout

8085 p consists of 16 signal pins use as address bus. Divide into 2 part: A15 A8 (upper) and AD7 AD0 (lower). A15 A8 : Unidirectional, known as high order address. AD7 AD0 : bidirectional and dual purpose (address and data placed once at a time). AD7 AD0 also known as low order address. To execute an instruction, at early stage AD7 AD0 uses as address bus and alternately as data bus for the next cycle. The method to change from address bus to data bus known as bus multiplexing.

8085 Pinout

Group of signals consists of :

Two control signals (RD read; and WR write). Three status signals (IO/M, S1, and S0) to recognize nature of operation. ALE (Address Latch Enable) signal : active high signal - generated to show the start of 8085 operation. When transition 1-to-0: indicate that lines AD7-AD0 (AD7-AD0 = A7-A0) act as address lines.

ALE used to demultiplex address/data bus

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Control and Status Signals

Signals:

RD Read (active low). To indicate that the I/O or memory selected is to be read and data are available on the bus. WR Write: Active low. This is to indicate that the data available on the bus are to be written to memory or I/O ports. IO/M To differentiate I/O operation of memory operations. 0 - indicates a memory operation. 1-indicates an I/O operation. IO/M combined with RD and WR to generate I/O and memory control signals. S1 dan S0: Status signals, similar to IO/M, can identify various operations as shown on the following table :

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Control and Status Signals.

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Interrupt Signals

8085 p has several interrupt signals as shown in the following table.

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Interrupt signals

An interrupt is a hardware-initiated subroutine CALL. When interrupt pin is activated, an ISR will be called, interrupting the program that is currently executing.
Pin TRAP RST 5.5 RST 6.5 RST 7.5 INTR Subroutine Location 0024 002C 0034 003C *

Note: * the address of the ISR is determined by the external hardware.

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Interrupt signals

INTR input is enabled when EI instruction is executed. The status of the RST 7.5, RST 6.5 and RST 5.5 pins are determined by both EI instruction and the condition of the mask bits in the interrupt mask register.

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Interrupt Vectors

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A circuit that causes an RST4 instruction (E7) to be executed in response to INTR.

When INTR is asserted, 8085 response with INTA pulse. During INTA pulse, 8085 expect to see an instruction applied to its data bus.

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RESET signal

Following are the two kind of RESET signals:

RESET IN: an active low input signal, Program Counter (PC) will be set to 0 and thus MPU will reset. RESET OUT: an output reset signal to indicate that the p was reset (i.e. RESET IN=0). It also used to reset external devices.

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RESET signal

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Direct Memory Access (DMA)

DMA is an IO technique where external IO device requests the use of the MPU buses. Allows external IO devices to gain high speed access to the memory.

Example of IO devices that use DMA: disk memory system.

HOLD and HLDA are used for DMA. If HOLD=1, 8085 will place it address, data and control pins at their high-impedance. A DMA acknowledgement is signaled by HLDA=1.

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MPU Communication and Bus Timing

Figure 3: Moving data form memory to MPU using instruction MOV C, A (code machine 4FH = 0100 1111)
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MPU Communication and Bus Timing

The Fetch Execute Sequence :

The p placed a 16 bit memory address from PC (program counter) to address bus. Figure 4: at T1

The high order address, 20H, is placed at A15 A8. the low order address, 05H, is placed at AD7 - AD0 and ALE is active high. Synchronously the IO/M is in active low condition to show it is a memory operation.

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At T2 the active low control signal, RD, is activated so as to activate read operation; it is to indicate that the MPU is in fetch mode operation.

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MPU Communication and Bus Timing

Figure 4: 8085 timing diagram for Opcode fetch cycle for MOV C, A .
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MPU Communication and Bus Timing

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T3: The active low RD signal enabled the byte instruction, 4FH, to be placed on AD7 AD0 and transferred to the MPU. While RD high, the data bus will be in high impedance mode. T4: The machine code, 4FH, will then be decoded in instruction decoder. The content of accumulator (A) will then copied into C register at time state, T4.

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Thank you MDS

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